The only thing that has worked for me is solving a problem you are passionate about with ML. I’m not talking about some pretend problem or competition in Kaggle

The only thing that has worked for me is solving a problem you are passionate about with ML. I’m not talking about some pretend problem or competition in Kaggle. I’m talking about a problem I’m interested in or curious about. Choose a model, try to get some data, tune the model and deploy it somewhere. See how it performs and keep iterating and learning as you go along